Employees Adaptation Mechanisms in Extractive Industries while Shift Work Organization at Far North and Arctic

Abstract

Abstract The study was carried out with the financial support of the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists - candidates of science (MK-6409.2018.6). The article is devoted to the description of the mechanisms of psychological adaptation of employees of oil and gas producing companies of various professional groups during shift work organization in the Arctic. Mining industries are located in remote areas of the Far North and the Arctic, which is why the shift work method is used there. The professional activity of shift work specialists in the conditions of the Far North presents high demands for the creation of conditions for physiological, psychological and socio-psychological adaptation. Despite the large number of works in medicine and psychology devoted to these issues of human adaptation to severe climatic and geographic conditions and shift work, the systematization and classification of the mechanisms of psychological, social and psychological adaptation of workers in extractive industries is not enough. The research was carried out in oil and gas production with a shift work organization on the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (the duration of the rotation arrival is 30 days). The study involved 70 workers aged 24 to 60 years (mean age 38.7 ± 1.3). Methods of research: studying documentation, monitoring the work process, questioning, psychophysiological and psychological testing, statistical methods of data analysis. As a result of the research, differences in self-regulation, regulatory processes, psychological protections and mechanisms of socio-psychological adaptation among workers in the oil and gas production of various professional groups were revealed.